How To Make Adsense Blog More Productive

How to build a blog that could be make money from them. When it comes to building a blog for Adsense, many webmasters ask themselves what is the best adsense format to use. If you will make a research on the web about adsense blog, you will only be guided by the different blog with their ads and they will most likely sell the answers to you. Since you are hoping to get answers to all your questions, you will do anything just to know how to create ones.

Now before you make any move, it will be helpful if you do some research and learning on the different search engines. There may be a hundreds of forums that will be displayed on your search. pay intention for them, searching and learning step by step, It can be a good way to get valuable information that you can use on your blog. Reading articles written by some professional internet marketers are also a good move. Some of the marketers share their own experiences and adsense to help the beginners who wish to succeed in the field of marketing. You can read through hundreds of articles and you can surely get something out of reading them

Although the answers that you can get will ask you to do a little bit of work, it will be worth the try if you really want to succeed. Everyone in the marketing field increased their profits without trying the different strategies. The web service is a good source for adsense secrets. You can use good keywords to find advices and tips. You can use keywords in the search engines such as: adsense tips, increase adsense income, adsense experiments and adsense adsense tricks. You will be shown with a lot of good information that you can choose from.

To realize how to make adsense money machine, a webmaster must produce a blog that has the factors and characteristics needed to generate the traffic and clicks it needs to be profitable. There are many things a webmaster needs to do to achieve this and be one of the millions of sites or blog who have successfully done so. But there are so much more things a site owner has failed to do to make their site more Adsense friendly. It is essential that you research well on finding the good keywords your site or blog can use to generate the traffic and get a high ranking on the search engines results. If many internet users are directed to you, you get a huge opportunity to get great traffic. With traffic comes the profit. cause increasing traffic could be large chance to make money

To get the attention of the people, you must provide a site that can perk up the interest of the people. Adsense works well if you maintain a good number of traffic, you have to keep the people’s interest on your site and have a group of people to keep coming back to your site and have them recommend it. You must also find a niche or brandname wherein these groups of people are interested in. Find the right nicheor brandname and you’ll find the right group of people that are willing to spend some money. You have to serve something new to the people or if not, try to keep abreast with the developments of your niche or maybe add some sub-niches on your site that still pertains to your niche to get new traffic and keep the attention of your clients in your site.

If you want to build the best adsense format, try include the Adsense square block in the articles on each pages, because this way the visitor will think it is an internal link and it will increase your overall clickthrough. You can place the ads right under the title of the article, or in between two paragraphs. Many elements are needed to build a successful adsense site. Good keywords and the right niches can roll in the dough, but this takes time and effort. It is imperative to devout a certain amount of time in looking for ways to develop your Adsense.

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SnapBomb Buzz Marketing Tools For Get Money

firstly I get info about SnapBomb, I read in my friend blog, who said that snapbomb is offering opportunities get money online by review some product and services from advertising. Snapbomb can be categories to get paid to review. in this page's I would writing and get some review about snapbomb product and services.

From my opinion to knowing snapbomb, there are some point can be describe in this page's:

1. What Kind is SnapBomb..??
What kind is snapbomb?, maybe in your mind fullfill with this question as I firstly heard about snapbomb, like someone said if you want to know someone, firstly you must introduce your self and then correct the right info about it. So I visit to snapbomb website and I get sign-up with them. so kind simple step for the firstly, trully in snapbomb we can not find information about rules, term of condition and some info about how we to be posting, there is maybe in the next time could be complete by snapbomb. but as I known it's so simple work with snapbomb. cause it's not complicated step like others. To answer this question, what kind is snapbomb..?? the answer is snapbomb offering to us make money with reviewing and payable direct to our paypal account.

2. What is buzz marketing..??
as we know a program get paid to review usually is place meet between advertising and blogger. because advertising and blogger can be direct contact so be in snapbomb. snapbomb offering some opportunities posting for reveiwing some product or services from advertising to blogger. so in this relation can be create increasing traffic to advertising and blogger. buzz marketing is mean that advertising offer posting to review by some blogger is interested, so if 10 blogger get review a product advertising it's mean that advertising get 10 link to their product or services. by the way this condition can make search engine rank for both side. There is advantage for advertising who get review their product by blog who have pagerank. so their product could be known fast.

3. What is blog marketing
Snapbomb offering two kind registered that we could be member, first is blogger register and second is advertising register, if we blogger, we can registered trough blogger, so by snapbomb offering posting review to post in our blog, that can be said that our blog is blog marketing, why, as we know many way to definition of marketing, example marketing e-mail, affiliate marketing, etc. blog marketing is a way to known some product or services from advertising trough our blog by linking their website to our blog, so could be said this is relation create some exchange link.

4. What is blog advertising
By advertising and linking to some product or services from advertising in our blog, that could be said that our blog become blog marketing and blog advertising directly, why,,?? as we know that if we show something we said we advertising something but if we could selling something, that could be said we have marketing something, directly from this, our blog become blog advertising cause we known some product and services to user.

Why we lossing this chance with snapbomb. get your chance to make money with snapbomb, and filling simple with snapbomb.

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How to get money with Smorty

Get paid for blogging. Write our opinion about peoples products, services and websites on our blog. Get paid weekly..

No advertising, just write our opinions

• Earn top $ with every opinion post
• Select the subjects that interest us
• Post in multiple blogs to earn more
• Build interesting, unique content in our Blog
• Get paid weekly by PayPal

Smorty is bridge betwen advertising and blogger, advertising start campaign with smorty and smorty deliver them to the right bloggers for publishing an opinion on their Blogs. Smorty helps you make money from your blogs.

There are requirement that smorty approved our blog, there requirements is :

• Your blog must be indexed by Google and Yahoo
• Your blog must be older than 3 months
• Your blog must not contain any violent, hate related or adult content
• Your blog must be active and have a history of minimum average 2 new posts per week
• The blog must not have duplicate posts or excessive duplicate content

Smorty said that It can take up to 72 hours to have our blog approved / declined. Smorty will generally try to process Blogs as soon as they are received. Once Smorty has sent you an email describing why our blog was not approved, we have a chance to fix these problems. Once they are fixed we can resubmit for another review via the contact us smorty page. If the problem can not be fixed, smorty will permanently reject our blog.

Register with smorty that unlimited number of our blog, it's mean that if we have 5 blog under us, we can register all that blog under our account. The more blogs we have, the more opinion posts we can write and the more money we make! To add more blogs we can do this from our admin panel under the "my account" section.

Earn Money Blogging Short opinion articles earn you hundreds of $ http://www.smorty.com

Smorty has a unique blogger ranking system. There are two factors affecting our income, firstly, if we have a higher Google Page Rank we will be offered higher paying campaigns as well as the lower paid campaigns. This will start at $6 and go up to around $60 for some campaigns. Secondly, Smorty's calculates it's own 5 star rating system, it's created by the accumulation of scores given by advertisers on a per post basis. For example, if we submited ten posts and the advertisers gave us 5 stars for all of our posts then our average star rating will be 5. Our rating starts at zero stars and it will take time to grow so be patient and write lots of good quality posts to get the best rating we can.
If we have a higher rating, we are more likely to receive more campaign offers and more higher priced campaigns. We can earn up to even $100 per article on some occasions.

In the Smorty page's said that advertisers have 5 full days to review our posts, they are then automatically approved after this time if not disputed. Disputed posts are placed on hold for Smorty staff to review and make a final decision. If our post is declined then we will lose that task and will not be paid for it. If the post is sent back asking for changes, we have 24 hours to fix it and submit the post again in our admin panel.

Bloggers generally get paid on a weekly basis, however Smorty do not have a set payment day. The reason for this is because smorty pay via PayPal mass pay. The transfer of tens of thousands of dollars through PayPal can sometimes vary in time. As soon as our post has been approved, which takes 5 days, smorty try to pay for that blog article on the first payment day of that week. Please do not contact us if you are not paid that week, the money is in transfer and we will be paid for our pending earnings.

However there are rules that blogger must be point to take step before we take some job from smorty, cause if we not rules this, smorty will be reject our post. they rules are :

• Each opinion must be unique and especially written for that campaign and must be relevant to the campaign subject.
• Smorty advise we not to write negative opinions as these are more commonly disputed.
• Each post must include the anchor text with a direct link to the advertisers page provided.
• Each post must include only one (1) outbound link which must be the campaign owners provided URL.
• Posts should be a minimum of 150 words and not exceed 400 words

Smorty also offering how we get money beside we review some product and services, referral system, that can help us to get more money from smorty. Smorty's referral system works automatically so their is no reason we won't get paid unless it's a user fault. smorty will list the stages in which a commission is registered and paid.

1. Firstly a blogger must display the Smorty banner correctly with all it's coding on their website. It must also be on an approved, active account with Smorty.
2. Our referral must have their cookies enabled when they click on our Smorty banner.
3. The referral must register their blog with Smorty whilst the cookie is still active in their computer.
4. The referrals blog must be approved and then make a post.
5. The referrals post must be approved before our next payment is due. This way it can be added to our next payment.
6. The referrals commission is only paid if we have other pending earnings, it is not paid on it's own.

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Get Money with Sponsoredreview

There is many kind of paid to review program right now, As we known that a part of them is Sponsoredreview, that offering to us that blogger get to earn and advertising get buzz. in this place I would tried to give short description about Sponsoredreview from my side.

Sponsoredreview is we see in their page's said that connect advertising with blogger wiling to write honest review about their services and products.

Trully until right now my blog always be reject, I don't know, maybe something wrong happen in my blog, but I will try sign in again later, as we know sponsoredreview good benefit offering to us, get money from review, it's sound easy, but in my opinian if we have review, we must have some basic knowledge about services and product that will be review. If we don't know about their services and product how we can review. so I can describe how to make review there is :

1. We must know well of english language, don't laugh, maybe if you can read and write english, this is not used information, but as a beginner like me, this is important, cause how we can make review if we can read and write english, especially I from Indonesia. so in my opinion this is important for me.
2. Get more Deeply information from advertising website who offering job to us, How to know anything about their services and product, if I will answer this question, my answer is I open their website and I read all information from them. so firstly to know about their product and services we just visit their website, if we must download program to try their program, so do it, cause this more benefit for us, so we can know anything about their product and service.

Back in Sponsoredreview page's. We show kind benefit if we become member of sponsoredreview.

How can reject this kind benefit, make traffic for our blog, and get rangking for our blog is so complicated and need more time to get that. as we know, we must take several step to make our blog known by search engine, and some tricks to get traffic and rangking for our blog. This kind mutual benefit can be said short way to make our blog as we want.don't wait and comfuse, follow me to make your blog known.

Sponsoredreview work that can be describe in this figure.

Firstly we should find advertising who offering to us get review for their product and services, then we make bid offer for that, after that we wait for our bid is be reject or approve,
But before that we must take some step for we listed in sponsoredreview :

Step 1: Add Our Blog(s)

The first thing to do is add our blog to sponsoredreview database. This is done by going to the “Manage Blogs” tab then clicking on “Add New Blog”. we can see the requirements for acceptance as a blogger in sponsoredreview system on the "Bloggers' Policy" section below. We will not be able to bid on opportunities or sell reviews until our first blog has been approved.

Step 2: Add Blog Screen

Once we have entered our blog URL into the “Blog URL” field, sponsoredreview system will gather stats on our blog. We will then be taken to a page where sponsoredreview ask for certain information about our blog. Here are some of the key fields and some important information we should know about each field.

Desired Price - This is where we set your price. This price is what advertisers see when they browse through sponsoredreview blog directory. There is no negotiating on this price so make sure it is reasonable. It is important that we look at sponsoredreview suggested pricing. If our blog is priced too high (compared to the quality and the stats of similar blogs) sponsoredreview may reject it.

Blog Category - This is the main category of our blog. We can only choose one, but do not fret, if our blog has multiple categories, we can enter them into the Tag/keyword field. Sponsoredreview system utilizes a tag based categorization system. Any keyword that we enter that becomes popular will be displayed as a category in sponsoredreview system, and our blog will be listed under that category.

Blog Title - It is highly recommended that we add descriptive keywords to our blog title. “Joe’s Technology and Health Blog” will do much better then “Joe’s Blog”. Our title is all some advertisers will see. If they see a keyword that is relevant to their product, they are much more likely to purchase a review from us.

Description - We should use this section to “sell” our blog to the advertiser. Explain how many visitors we have, or show some great examples of posts we do.

Blog Tags/Keywords - As explained above, sponsoredreview use a tag based categorization system. We should use keywords that describe the categories of content we write about. i.e. health, technology, pets.. etc...

Step 3: Search and Bid on Opportunities

After we have entered our blog into sponsoredreview system, and been approved, we can start bidding on opportunities. Note: It is not necessary for we to bid on opportunities in order to earn money. Advertisers will also search through sponsoredreview blog directory and purchase reviews directly from us. With that being said, we can earn a lot more money if we are proactive about searching and bidding on opportunities. We can see the Market Place Level rules on the "Bloggers' Policy" section below.

Sponsoredreview recommend bidding on opportunities relevant to our site first, as advertisers are more likely to accept bids from relevant websites. If we bid slightly below our “public” price, our bid will be noticed more. Sponsoredreview system shows the advertiser the difference between our public price and our bid price.

Once we have found an opportunity that we want to write about, we can bid on it by clicking on the opportunity name. Once we are in the opportunity details screen, we will see a box on the right side where we can place our bid. We can only bid on opportunities if our price meets the minimum price they are asking. In addition, our bid price cannot be higher then the price we have set for our blog.

Once we have made a bid, it is up to the advertiser to accept/reject/counter-offer:

1. If the advertiser accepts our bid we will be notified and we will have 7 days to complete the review.
2. If the advertiser makes a counter-offer we will be notified and we will have the option to accept, reject, or make another counter-offer.
3. If the advertisers rejects our offer we will be notified and all bidding will stop.

It is important to know that if the advertiser rejects our initial bid or counter-offer we will not be able to make another bid.

Some advertisers take a while to approve or decline a bid. Advertisers receive hundreds of bids from bloggers, so make sure our bid stands out. We will also get more acceptances if we bid on opportunities related to our site theme.

If our bid is not accepted or declined by an advertisers within a couple weeks, it will be purged from sponsoredreview system.

Step 4: When an Advertiser Purchases a Review Directly from us

Advertisers will often search for and purchase reviews directly from bloggers in sponsoredreview Blog Directory.

When an advertiser purchases a review from we directly, we are notified via email and on the homepage of our control panel. The item will be marked as “Awaiting Your Acceptance” on our homepage.

Step 5: Submitting the Completed Review

Once we have completed our review and double-checked our work, we need to submit the URL to sponsoredreview in order to complete the order. We can do this by clicking on the opportunity we are completing the review for (on the homepage).

Step 6: Getting Paid

Sponsoredreview pay every 2 weeks for reviews completed in that 2 week period. We rely on our Paypal address being correct in order to send our payment. sponsoredreview currently only accept Paypal. Sponsoredreview may consider other payment options in the future.

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PayPerPost - What and Why..?

"Get paid for blogging. You've been writing about Web sites, products, services and companies you love for years and you have yet to benefit from all the sales and traffic you have helped generate. That's about to change. With PayPerPost advertisers are willing to pay you for your opinion on various topics. Search through a list of Opportunities, make a blog posting, get your content approved, and get paid. It's that simple."

What is PayPerPost..?
What kind PayPerPost? What is that?, suitable with their motto that get paid for blogging, it's mean that we could be writing about web sites, products, service and companies we have yet benefit from all the sales and traffic we have helped generate. we'll paid by advertising for our opinion on various topics. PayPerPost can be categories Paid To Review program that mean if we can make some opinion or review from advertising offer we'll be paid.

Why we should be become member of PayPerPost.
There is kind benefit if we could become member of PayPerPost, especially if relation with page rank for our blog, there is some tracking system direct to our blog, it's mean After we take an opportunity and write about it on our blog, advertisers can read what we've written and score our post on a scale from 1 to 5 tacks (5 being the best). Advertisers also have the option of banning we from taking any further opportunities from them, which will affect your tack rating in a negative way. The best way to maintain a good tack rating is to always write clearly with good grammar and follow the requirements laid out in the opportunity description. Our final tack rating will be an average of all the scores advertisers have given our posts

There’s kind opportunity payperpost offer to us, get paid to blog about the things you love, there is kind code ethical to write posting in payperpost, ones of them said Be Honest with Ourself and Our Readers its mean, Subject to the agreement we form with an advertiser, we are free to write or say whatever we want. PayPerPost itself has no restrictions on how we express our genuine thoughts on an advertiser's product or service. It's up to we to pick the Opportunities that best suit we and our blog. If it doesn't feel right, if we don't own the product, or if we can't be honest, we pass on the Opportunity. Dishonest or completely off-topic posts can ultimately hurt our blog's credibility. PayPerPost strongly encourage we to only take opportunities that relate to we and to alert us if an advertiser ever suggests that we be dishonest.

Front page’s of payperpost website we showed a opportunities recent box which is review posting describe which in this time in offer. Usually also mention price of post, and discussion topic of post, in example of showed by that there is 4 discussion topic, that is theme about love at the price of $ 5.10, theme about flower at the price of $ 5.10, theme about world of reality TV at the price of $ 5.23 and theme about product of nitendo at the price of $ 15.00. So we know what kind topic right now in opportunities offering, The price it's self informing to us that this topic categories of opinion or reviewing some product. But this all depend by advertising it's self, cause they have choose who can take this opportunities.

In Payperpost also offering system which we can always contact directly to advertising or by payperpost it’s self. PPP Direct is a way for bloggers to monetize their blog outside of the PayPerPost Marketplace. By installing the PPP Direct Code and placing the PPP Direct Badge on their site, a blogger is able to negotiate directly with advertisers on price and scope.

Following picture some provided tools for example :

PPP Direct allows you to take offers directly from any advertiser visiting your site. By placing a badge on your blog, anyone clicking that badge will be presented with a form to create an opportunity just for your, and you set the minimum offer price! Even better PPP Direct allows you to negotiate with advertisers on the terms of the content. Do you think $20 is too little for 300 words? Tell the advertiser making the offer you want $25! Unlike other services PPP Direct charges a minimal fee of only 10% to help you facilitate the transaction. Our system puts advertiser money in reserve, if you do your job you will get paid! Many competitors charge a 100% markup for each transaction. Keep more of the money you earn with PPP Direct!

PayPerPost Firefox Plugin:

• Log into your PayPerPost account from a single button on your browser!
• Tell us what pages and products on the internet you are interested in blogging about with a single click!
• If you are on an advertisers page that relates to an opportunity you'll know right away and the plug-in can take you right to it!
• Looking for something interesting to read? Click on the random postie button and spin the wheel!

How to install
Click on the install button to the right. You will get a warning at the top of the page that says "Firefox prevented this site (payperpost.com) from asking you to install software on you computer." Click on the EDIT OPTIONS button at the end of that message. In the popup screen click on the "ALLOW" button then close the popup.

Click the install button again and a new popup will appear telling you that you are installing this plugin. Wait for the 5 second counter on the install button to count down then when it changes to "Install Now" click it. You will then need to restart firefox. You can either click the "Restart Firefox" button in the new window or manually close it (it must be completely closed including any download windows) and start it back up.

Your new toolbar should be there and ready to use.

PayPerPost is proud to introduce the new Review My Post program! By simply putting a badge at the bottom of *EVERY* post, you can invite new prospective Posties to review your blog posts! When someone clicks on this badge and signs up with PayPerPost, a special opportunity is created JUST FOR THEM! The $7.50 opportunity asks them to write a post in their blog reviewing a post on YOUR blog.

This is a great opportunity for you to earn money and grow your sphere of influence. You can generate thousands of links back to your site and earn money for each link! As soon as the new Postie gets paid for reviewing your blog you get paid $7.50! To get the most out of this program, be sure to place this badge code at the bottom of every post on your blog, even the ones that aren't sponsored posts. The more posts that the badge is tagged to, the wider variety of content potential posties have to blog about when they review your post! The easiest way to achieve this is to simply modify your blog post template so that the badge automatically appears whenever you post a new blog.

No worries, it's not too complicated. Simply tell your friend about PayPerPost by posting one of these badges on your site. The magic all happens when your friend is creating an account. You will get paid $15.00 once the referees first blog posting is reviewed, approved and then finally accepted 30 days later. This means they need to go all the way through the process in order for it to be a legit referral. If they do it right and are accepted we will hook you up. There is no limit to the number of people you can refer so long as we don't see any fishy business with your account.

If you sign up multiple accounts with different emails under the same TAX ID or individual you will not be compensated and will risk being eliminated from our program. We reserve the right to modify these terms at any time.

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BuyBlogReview - Info

" We Bring Blogger and Adsvertising together to review Product and Services"

What is BuyBlogReview
What kind BuyBlogReview? What is that?, this simple kind question must giving by people who's want to know about BuyBlogReview, same with me firstly I read about BuyBlogReview in some article and some advertising firstly I saw. BuyblogReview that can be categories make money online opportunity, job system giving by BuyBlogReview is reviewing some product or service. BuyBlogReview giving opportunity blogger and advertising together to review some product and services.

Why we should be become member of BuyBlogReview.

what kind benefit if we join with BuyBlogReview? and Why we should be become member of BuyBlogReview. Become member of BuyBlogReview there's have advantage point for blogger, why, as we know, to make our blog listed and linked with some search engine throught some process with spend more step and more time. By BuyBlogReview there is 3 kind benefit well giving to adsvertising and blogger, there are :

1. Direct Traffic
2. Higher Rangking
3. Valuable FeedBack

It's mean that become member of BuyBlogReview garented that we have opportunity to make increase traffic in our blog, so our blog defenetly have higher rangking cause many traffic occur in our blog, maybe this is simple explaination why we should be become member of BuyBlogReview.
There's kind explaination why we should be become member of BuyBlogReview.

Advertising benefit is :

• You can get product or services reviewed by professional, semi-professional and normal bloggers by simply posting an opportunity in our marketplace, bloggers that are intersted in your opportunity will bid with their best offers, you can then select the ones you like the most. You can select multiple bloggers to write reviews. The other way to get reviewed is by searching through the inventory and ordering directly to the bloggers you like
• If you wish bloggers to view your requirements and then bid with their best offers then you need to post an opportunity. Posting an opportunity is very simple and easy, simply logon to your account and click the link "post new opportunity", fill out your requirements and you are done. Bloggers will then make their offers and you can select the ones you like
• You can do that by browsing through the inventory, select the blogs you want your reviews on and then complete the order and you are done. You can ask any questions from bloggers who have made an offer on your opportunity. When you are fully satisfied by the pricing and services offered, you can go ahead and place the order.
• Creating an opportunity means you post your requirements on our website and all the bloggers will be able to see and make their offers according to the quality of blogs they have. This way you can run your advertising campaigns at much lower cost while getting the best quality possible. Creating an opportunity is FREE. You will not be charged untill you order a review. You can add funds to your account from your Credit Card or Paypal account
• There is no minimum limit to add funds. Creating an opportunity (posting your requirements) is FREE. You don't have to pay untill you buy a review. You can ask for refund for any money you have in your account. Full unused money will be refunded to your paypal account
• Reviews costs as low as normal Text Links and the best thing is you don't have to pay monthly either. Reviews cost just one time. You can control how much you want to pay for reviews, by posting your requirements on our website you can mention your budget per review. All the interested Bloggers will then make their offers. You may select the ones you like.
• All blog posts are permanent, once you buy a review, it will remain online

Blogger benefit is :

• We pay out through PayPal.com, thats the only payment system we have at the moment.
• You can register a new blog by simply log in in to your blogger's account and click on register a blog. It may take up to 72 hrs before you blog is approved by the blogger's admin.
• You can only bid on opportunities in category which you already have a blog registered. Like if you have a blog related to sports, then you can only bid on opportunities that are related to sports, you can't bid on opportunities from other categories unless you add new blogs for those categories or your blog covers those categories as well.
• Payment is sent every two weeks thats 1st and 15th of every month. We charge only 30% which means you get 70% from each review. This is the highest in industry. Payment is sent automatically after 15 days.
• Your blog must have unique content and must not contain any kind of illegal, porn or hate material. Your domain must have valid PageRank. Blogs with very little content will not be allowed.

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The Hidden Guide: participate on Technorati favorites exchange

The Hidden Guide: participate on Technorati favorites exchange

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Getting Quality Traffic

By Rob Wood

One of the keys to driving sales to the Merchant programs that you have joined is getting quality traffic to the site that has your clixGalore Affiliate links. But what actually constitutes "quality traffic" and how do you go about getting it? This tutorial will take you through a few of the basics of what it is and where you can find it.

What is quality traffic?

Quality traffic is composed of visitors who want to be at your site. A single visitor who buys something via the Affiliate links on your site is going to be worth more to you than a million visitors who don't. You therefore need to concentrate on getting that single quality visitor (or many of them). They are somebody who is searching for the exact thing you are promoting ¨C hopefully with their credit card already in their hand.

What isn't quality traffic?

Poor quality traffic is a visitor who doesn't want to be on your site. This includes visitors who were somehow "tricked" into coming to your site or arrived thinking they were going to find something else. An example of this would be if your site was presented to a visitor via an unwanted popup or if you Affiliate link was presented in a spam email message. Such traffic is notoriously poor quality (not to mention being illegal and against clixGalore TOS in the case of spam) and extremely difficult for most Affiliates to convert into sales.

Why is quality traffic important?

Driving quality, targeted traffic to your own site or affiliate promotion is extremely important. For starters, having quality traffic can increase click through rates on your affiliates links dramatically. Some Affiliates manage to maintain CTRs of around 5% on well designed sites that attract quality, targeted traffic (that is very much on the high end though). In fact it is extremely unlikely that poor quality traffic will stick around on your site long enough to find out what it is all about, let alone actually click through one of your Affiliate links and make a purchase. The quality of your traffic is the key to making sales. When you have good quality traffic then you can concentrate on increasing the volume of that traffic so you make even more sales.

Where do I get quality traffic?

There a several strategies to get quality traffic. The search engines are a good start, because when somebody finds your site via a search engine, you will most likely be giving them exactly the information they are looking for. Search engine traffic is usually among the highest quality traffic. Affiliates who get a lot of this traffic usually have large websites with lots of useful content surrounding keywords that are directly relevant to the Affiliate products they are promoting.

It is also possible to get quality traffic via PPC search services such as Google and Overture, though this can be a little expensive. Some Affiliates start their own PPC campaigns and input the Affiliate links directly into the service so that the visitor is taken directly to the Merchant's site.

Quality traffic can also come from other similar sites in your niche (or mailing lists). In this case it is usually when they link to you or mention you to their own visitors or subscribers. If their site is similar to your then the visitors you get from them will be already interested in the topic of your site.

These seem to be the main ways to generate targeted, quality traffic though some people always manage to come up with more imaginative ways. If you can concentrate on getting this type of traffic to your Affiliate site then you should start to see some results.

© Copyright by clixGalore Affiliate Marketing

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Beginner? Focus Your Efforts

By Rob Wood

One mistake that new Affiliate marketers often make is to go out a join a lot of Merchant programs and try to promote them all. This is usually due to being very enthusiastic and wanting to start promoting a lot of Merchants as soon as possible. Unfortunately, this is usually not the best strategy to go with if you are new to Affiliate Marketing. This tutorial will go through a few things that new Affiliates should do to educate themselves about marketing with clixGalore and why it isn't necessarily a good idea to join a lot of Merchant programs.

The first thing that needs to be done for any Merchant program you join is research. If you are not up to speed on Affiliate Marketing in general, then you should certainly consider reading ALL of the articles available here at clixGaloreTutor.com. After you are comfortable with the basics of Affiliate Marketing, you will need to find out about the specific product you want to promote and develop a plan for how you intend to develop it. By concentrating on one Merchant or a group of similar Merchants you will give yourself a better chance at success. This maybe slightly counter-intuitive - after all if you promote 100 merchants, by extension, you should make 100 times as many commissions, right?

Wrong.

Affiliates who specialise in one area or niche of Affiliate marketing, tend to do better - especially if they are in the early stages of developing their Affiliate career. Over time, it will be possible to diversify, but for the early stages it is far better to concentrate on a single merchant, product or niche.

Another mistake that many new Affiliates make is to fill a site or webpage with hundreds of Affiliate links and banners and expect people to click on them. Again, this simply won't work well at all. You are far better advised to develop a website around a single product, Merchant or niche and concentrate on promoting it to people who would be interested in that topic. Provide them with information and Affiliate links that are related to the topic.

Alternatively, if you are promoting Merchants via other methods, you would be well advised to concentrate on a single area. For example, developing an email list interested in a particular niche will be more responsive to offers than a general email list. Always keep the niche in mind.

Even using PPC marketing like Adwords, you will find that concentrating on a niche helps. Knowing a specific product or niche area well will usually improve your results in that area. This is mainly reflected in your choice of successful keywords which you will come to develop and improve as you discover which work and which don't.

Now, in deciding which product or Merchants you should concentrate on promoting when you are relatively new to Affiliate marketing, you should consider a few things first. Perhaps the most important is knowing what to look for in a Merchant program. There is a helpful tutorial on that topic here.

When you have come to terms with that, and have chosen a small niche to begin marketing, you will be in much better stead that many beginning Affiliates. Concentrating on your specific product. Merchant or niche will give you the greatest chance of success by focussing your enthusiasm, efforts and Affiliate education.

© Copyright by clixGalore Affiliate Marketing

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Diagnosing and Treating Revenue Fluctuations (Part I)

Posted by Christian Ashlock - AdSense Optimization Team

You love your website and you want it to thrive. You create content, manage your community, and keep an eye on your AdSense performance. If AdSense revenue is down, you're understandably concerned. If AdSense revenue is up, you're happy, but you want to know why. Revenue fluctuations are obvious enough when they occur, but the root cause isn't equally clear. It can be challenging for both new and experienced publishers alike to analyze their AdSense data and respond effectively to changes.
The goal of this post, and our follow-up later this week, is to help you understand the AdSense revenue model so you can diagnose and treat revenue fluctuations like an experienced MD.

Study up

The first step is knowing how the figures reported in your account (such as eCPM, CTR and page impression) interact to describe your total revenue. Think of each number as a variable in the revenue formula for your site. At the highest level, you can calculate revenue by multiplying your page impressions by the effective cost-per-thousand impressions (eCPM) and dividing by 1000.

Revenue = Page Impressions * eCPM / 1000

eCPM = Revenue / Page Impressions * 1000

The eCPM metric of how much revenue you can expect to earn for every 1000 page impressions. For example, if you serve 10,000 page impressions and earn $40, your eCPM is $4. If page impressions increase to 30,000, you can predict that you'll earn $120 given the $4 eCPM.

Most AdSense ads pay on a cost-per-click (CPC) basis, so eCPM is really a measure of your average ad performance. Breaking eCPM into the click-through-rate (CTR) and the average cost that advertisers pay per click (CPC) gives you a more accurate measure of performance.

Revenue = Page Impressions * CTR * average CPC

Once you know your average CTR and your average CPC, you can predict how much revenue you'll earn for a given amount of page views. You can also analyze your revenue by looking at placement-targeted ads versus contextually-targeted ads.

Total Revenue = Revenue (contextual) + Revenue (placement-targeted)

While contextually targeted ads always pay per click, advertisers can pay for placement-targeted ads by impression (CPM) or by click (CPC). To account for both of these bid types, you should look at the average eCPM for placement targeted ads. More simply, you can just add placement-targeted revenue to your contextually targeted revenue.

Revenue = (Page Impressions (contextual) * CTR * average CPC) + (Page Impressions (placement-targeted) * eCPM (placement targeted) / 1000)

Revenue = (Page Impressions (contextual) * CTR * average CPC ) + Revenue (placement-targeted)

Even though we're looking at contextual and placement-targeted revenue separately, don't forget that these two types of ads compete against each other in the auction. We'll always show the best performing ad, regardless of targeting type, so more competition creates higher winning bids.

Identify the symptoms

Now you're ready to diagnose any revenue fluctuation. Just like the revenue formulas above, let's start simple and gradually get more complex.

The first question to ask is: Did either your page impressions or your eCPM change? You can compare trends in both page impressions and eCPM using the Advanced Reports in your account.

If your AdSense page impressions have declined, you should determine if traffic to your entire site is declining as well. A web analytics tool such as Google can provide you with this information. In addition, you should check your pages for unpaid public service (PSAs).

If your eCPM is down, you'll need to dig one level deeper and find out if your contextual or placement targeted ad performance has dropped. You can also find this data in the Advanced Reports tab using the options shown below.

Let's consider your contextual ads first. The two key metrics to investigate are CTR and average CPC. CTR is given in your reports, but you'll need to calculate your average CPC using your favorite spreadsheet. (My favorite goes without saying). Please keep in mind that this is still an average CPC for your account and doesn't necessarily correspond with the price paid by any specific advertiser. Once you've narrowed the change to CTR or average CPC you're ready to start treatment.

For placement-targeted ads, you should analyze how much total placement-targeted revenue you are receiving and the average eCPM. Changes in either of these metrics usually indicate that advertisers are beginning or ending campaigns targeted to your site. Again, placement-targeted campaigns are more likely to be short-term than contextual campaigns.

That's all we have time for today -- now that you have a better understanding of what factors can affect revenue, don't forget to check back later this week for the second part of this series. We'll be treating ways to treat revenue fluctuations based on the symptoms you've discovered.

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The 10 Step Plan To Successful Email Marketing

About the Author: Matt Jackson, founder of WebWiseWords

When website owners and marketers talk about online marketing, they often refer to SEO and PPC. Email marketing can sometimes be overlooked despite being one of the most powerful methods to reach potential customers and to keep existing customers coming back for more. Perhaps a factor in this is that direct email campaigns are commonly associated with spam emails, but careful list management ensures that this need not be a problem.

There are a number of stages to a successful email marketing campaign and by nailing as many as possible you can improve your results. The key to success, though, most commonly lies in the planning stage if this is your first foray into email marketing then be prepared to treat it as a test run. The more direct email marketing campaigns you run, the more opportunity you have to optimize the process and improve your results. Here are ten of the most important steps to an effective email campaign.

1 Determine Your Ultimate Goal

This might sound obvious, but having a clear goal in mind will help to concentrate your efforts. There are many effective uses of an email marketing campaign from increasing brand awareness to pushing a new product or seasonal promotion. Each of these uses typically demands a different campaign with its own style and its own components.
Increasing traffic to your website is not usually a bottom line target. The reason for increasing traffic to a website is normally to improve sales and increase profits. In the majority of cases, it is more desirable to attain greater sales through fewer visitors, than having a site awash with visitors but with a poor conversion rate.

A prolonged and careful email marketing campaign will naturally help to improve brand awareness. Your readers will naturally remember your name and the products or services that you sell as they gain more and more exposure to your marketing emails. Similarly, as long as you produce relevant and useful emails, your potential customers will grow to trust you making it more likely that they will purchase from you now or in the future.

2 - Your Opt-In Email List

There are a couple of key aspects to this section. YOUR opt-in list will generate better results than the use of somebody else's list. If you have taken the time and put in the effort to grow your own list, then the members of that list will already have some degree of awareness for you, your products, and your website.

Developing your own list can take time and money. To get a head start it is possible to buy or rent email lists from others. In these cases it is particularly important to pay attention to the second important factor the list MUST be an opt-in list. Every member of that list must have opted in to receive marketing communication from you and they MUST be given adequate opportunity to opt out of future communication.

Particular care needs to be taken with your list management techniques to ensure that you are not deemed as being spam. If you purchase lists or partial lists then members that opt out need to be recorded separately. If you purchase another list that includes the same name and you subsequently email that person without their express request to be re-included in your list then you face the very real possibility of being flagged as sending spam email.

3 - Establish Performance Tracking Techniques

Tracking the performance of any advertising campaign should be foremost in your mind. This is the only true method of determining its worth and is the only way you can optimize your advertising to generate the best possible results. Web analytics are an absolute must-have, and with the wealth of affordable and even free choices available today there is no reason not to have a good analytic package in place.

Tracking code can also be placed into an HTML email. You need to operate a degree of caution when implementing code into HTML emails, because it could lead to your email being blocked by over zealous spam filters. If you can use hyperlinks that include tracking code, and your analytics package includes referral data, then this can generate the majority of the information you require.

The more information you can gleam from an advertising campaign, the better. You will be using these results to fine tune future advertising campaigns, so too much information is better than too little. If in any doubt then consider using an email marketing management service to conduct the tracking on your behalf.

4 Ready Your Website

Directing visitors to your website is only a portion of the battle ahead. Once a reader clicks through the links in your email, you then need to be confident that your web pages are optimized to complete the sale. Conversion rates need to be high on the pages you direct traffic to, but you also need to target the traffic to the most appropriate pages and vice versa.

Consider the anchor text, or link text, that you will be using in your email. If you are encouraging readers to learn more about a product then don't direct them straight to the purchase page unless that page includes the inferred information. Similarly, if you have pre-sold your readers so that they are poised and ready to buy, and your CTA (Call To Action) indicates that this is the next step then you can navigate readers through to a more direct sales page.

Introducing a new product or a new concept will usually take more information than you can provide in a single marketing email. If necessary, add a page or multiple complementary pages, to your website. Direct readers to these pages so that you can combine the use of your email marketing and your optimized and informative content to really persuade and hammer the message home hard.

5 An Effective Subject Line

The subject line of your email is the first thing your readers will read, and you need to ensure that it won't be the last. Human spam filters can be just as difficult to avoid as software spam filters, even for genuine email. You should certainly avoid the use of typically spammy subject lines and opt for a more effective approach.

There are many ways to write an appealing subject line. A newsworthy subject line will often grab the attention but only works effectively in limited cases. Otherwise, try to evoke an emotive response from the reader. The strongest emotions include greed, love, and even hatred or controversy. With these latter two it is again important that you exercise appropriate caution otherwise you may alienate your readers against this and future marketing emails.
Intrigue and appeal work very well. An intriguing headline will draw your readers into the main body of the content and the subject line will have then done its job effectively. Never mislead in the subject of your email but do try to peak your reader's curiosity to the extent that they can't help but open the email and read it fully.

6 - Email Body Content

Finally we reach the main body content of the email. That it's taken to point six to do so is an indication of how important the planning and preparation stages are. The subject line has hopefully driven a good portion of your list to open the email, and those readers should be intrigued enough to want to read more.

Research shows that the more personalized the message, the more likely it will be to succeed. Start with a personalized greeting and use a friendly, even conversational tone, throughout the message. Inform readers of what they need to know but do so informally and in as friendly a manner as is possible by email.

The email absolutely has to be grammatically and factually correct, and must not contain typos. These types of errors can be an instant turn off for readers. Run a spell check. Twice. And then check it manually and have somebody else check it again for you. At the same time check the links and ensure that they do indeed direct to the proper pages.

Include a Call To Action, or CTA, rather than just a link. A CTA is a direction that points your visitors to perform your desired action. This could be to click a link, make a purchase, or even forward the email to friends. The CTA needs to be clearly defined an, obviously, as effective and accurate as possible.

7 - Hyperlinks To Your Site

The entire point (although probably not your ultimate goal) of your email is to get readers to click on links and visit your website. Include two or three links in the body of your email and make sure they are relevant without being too obvious. Lead readers to click the links rather than directly point it out and find something more effective than click here to use as your anchor text.

Two to three links is the ideal number. Too few links and your email won't prove effective at driving traffic, while too many links will detract from the actual content of the email. If your email is very short then offer two links, or offer three links within longer messages. Contextual links (that is, those that appear within the body of the email rather than at the end) are usually significantly more effective.

Check and double check that links work and direct to the correct page. Once you've done this, have somebody else check them too. The number of marketing emails that have failed because of broken or incorrect links is alarmingly high and this is not a trap that you want to fall into.

8 - Choose The Best Time To Send Your Email

The time you send your email can have a significant impact on its effectiveness. During the night, most people's emails fill up. In a lot of cases, this can mean that your reader will be faced with tens of emails in the morning, many of them rubbish. This leaves a very real chance that they will simply ignore or delete your email without noticing who sent it, what it is about, or whether they have any interest in reading it.

Consider your target market and when they are most likely to be sat in front of their email. Those with a global market may find this more difficult because of the time difference, but otherwise bear this in mind too. Not every website or marketing email is geared towards residents from the same country.

9 - Test Email

Initially, send a test email to yourself, friends, family, or colleagues. This is more to determine that it arrives looking as expected. Once you have done this and are happy with how your email looks, you should then move on to send a second test email to a small selection of your list. This gives you ample opportunity to make any last minutes changes or tweaks according to how this small test run performs.

You might even consider sending several tests out to different groups, if you have a large enough list. This enables you to test the subject line, content, and product price, by making alterations before each test run. Be sure to test the different components separately, though, so that you can determine what needs changing and what works well.

A test email also gives you chance to check that you are set up and able to track the results and any other information you want to track. A good email marketing service will do this by default, because the test email can prove to be one of the single most effective ways to improve the performance of a one-off email shot.

10 - Monitor, Optimize, And Start Again

Being careful not to send emails too frequently, you should send regular communication to your list. An unloved list will be more likely to unsubscribe and readers become most responsive after approximately seven items of communication from you. Monitor results, check bounce rates, and look for ways that your campaign could be improved.

Once you've found the best ways to improve a campaign make the improvements and begin the procedure again from the beginning. This process of monitoring, optimizing, and starting again will help to increase exposure, improve brand awareness, and generally improve results and profit levels.

Why Your List Is So Important

A list can last you a lifetime and it is possible to continue selling to the same list members over and over again. In fact, once a list member purchases from you, and presuming that everything goes smoothly during and after the sale, they will be more inclined to purchase from you in the future. You will have won their trust, gained their favor, and they can be relied upon to help you with extra sales in the future.

Look after your list and your list will look after your profits.

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RSS - Blog Directories

Source Author : http://www.toprankresults.com/.

Below is a list of the submission urls for RSS and blog directories that you can submit your blog or RSS feed to. This list is a work in progress and will change often. Send feedback, edits to: blog at toprankresults dot com

You might also be interested in the TopRank RSS Button Maker or the Social Bookmark Creator for “socializing” your blog. Find tips on marketing your blog here.

1. http://www.2rss.com/index.php
2. http://www.all-blogs.net/submit.php
3. http://www.answers.com/main/new_blogger.jsp
4. http://www.avivadirectory.com/submit.php
5. http://blawg.org/modules.php?name=Web_Links&l_op=AddLink
6. http://www.blogarama.com/add-a-site/
7. http://www.blogbib.com/submit.php
http://www.blogbunch.com/suggest/
http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/submit_blog.html
http://www.blogcode.com/signup.php
http://blogdigger.com/add.jsp
http://www.blogflux.com/add.php
http://www.bloggernity.com/cgi-bin/add.cgi
http://www.bloghop.com/account/index.htm
http://www.bloghub.com/cgi-bin/add.cgi
http://blogintro.com/?page_id=925
http://www.blogpulse.com/submit.html
http://www.blog-search.com/blog-submission.html
http://www.sarthak.net/blogz/add.php
http://boingboing.net/suggest.html
http://blogs.botw.org/helpcenter/submitblog.aspx
http://www.bulletize.com/add.php?sid=0
http://chordata.info/suggest.php
http://www.contentsmatter.com/add.php
http://www.crayon.net/using/suggest.html
http://www.diarist.net/
http://portal.eatonweb.com/add.php
http://www.feeds4all.com/AddRSS.aspx
http://www.feedage.com/submit.php
http://www.feedboy.com/
http://www.feedsfarm.com/a.html
http://findingblog.com/add_blog.php?cat=
http://www.fybersearch.com/add-url.php
http://www.globeofblogs.com/register.php
https://www.gobignetwork.com/blog/AddBlog.aspx
http://www.iblogbusiness.com/add.html
http://www.icerocket.com/c?p=addblog
http://www.lsblogs.com/howtosubmit.php
http://www.newsgator.com/ngs/subscriber/Folksonomy.aspx
http://www.plazoo.com/en/addrss.asp
http://portal.eatonweb.com/add.php
http://www.postami.com/rss.finder/submit_feed.php
http://www.pressradar.com/suggest
http://www.rateitall.com/suggest.aspx?WL=0&TopicID=20004
http://www.readablog.com/AddFeed.aspx
http://www.redtram.com/pages/addsource/
http://www.search4rss.com
http://blogsforsmallbusiness.com/directory/add.html
http://smallbusiness.com/wiki/Weblog_directory_company_blogs
http://strategicboard.com/?s=h:addblog
http://www.syndic8.com/suggest_start.php
http://www.tailrank.com/import
http://www.technorati.com/ping.html
http://www.topix.net/member/register
http://www.truthlaidbear.com/addtoscan.php
http://www.wilsdomain.com/blogs/wilsdomain9b.php?op=newsubmit
http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/my/cgi_rss_submission

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Ping service for blog promotions

Source author : www.o-om.com

One of the way of promoting blog is by using service facility of ping. way of this represent the way of practical also that blog is always known by many visitor.
Blogger in fact have provided service of ping can be seen on page Setting->Pusblish->ping. if satisfied caw you with service of blooger you can chosen one of the existing service below.

Ping Tips:
Do ping if you have updated yours blog.
Do ping if you do newest posting
Don'T ping excessively this because can be told as spam
Do ping need and don't be abundant

My favorite ping is :

http://mypagerank.net/service_pingservice_index
http://www.pingoat.com/
http://pingomatic.com/

Under this represent address corps of ping service which you can use for the promotion of blog.

1. http://1470.net/api/ping
2. http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
3. http://ping.amagle.com/
4. https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast
5. http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
6. http://bblog.com/ping.php
7. http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
8. http://ping.bitacoras.com/
9. http://bitacoras.net/ping
10. http://ping.blo.gs/
11. http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
12. http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
13. http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
14. http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
15. http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc
16. http://ping.blogg.de/
17. http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/
18. http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc
19. http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
20. http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc
21. http://www.blogoole.com/ping
22. http://www.blogoon.net/ping
23. http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
24. http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger
25. http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
26. http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
27. http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
28. http://rpc.britblog.com/
29. http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
30. http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
31. http://coreblog.org/ping
32. http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2
33. http://effbot.org/rpc/ping.cgi
34. http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
35. http://ping.fakapster.com/rpc
36. http://ping.feedburner.com/
37. http://api.feedster.com/ping.php
38. http://www.focuslook.com/ping.php?url=http://www.yourblog.com
39. http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
40. http://www.holycowdude.com/rpc/ping
41. http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
42. http://www.imblogs.net/ping
43. http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc
44. http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
45. http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
46. http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
47. http://api.moreover.com/ping
48. http://signup.alerts.msn.com/alerts-PREP/submitPingExtended.doz
49. http://ping.myblog.jp/
50. http://rpc.newsgator.com/
51. http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
52. http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
53. http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
54. http://pingates.com/
55. http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
56. http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
57. http://pingqueue.com/rpc
58. http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
59. http://xping.pubsub.com/ping
60. http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
61. http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
62. http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
63. http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2
64. http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
65. http://www.topicala.com/ping/
66. http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
67. http://www.wasalive.com/ping/
68. http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
69. http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
70. http://ping.weblogs.se/
71. http://www.weblogues.com/RPC
72. http://rpc.wpkeys.com/
73. http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
74. http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping

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Tips for Marketing Your Blog

Posted by Lee Odden on Jun 15th, 2006 in Blog Optimization, Blogging, SEO, Blog Marketing, Online Marketing |

With so many blogs being created every day, it’s a mystery to many bloggers how to make their blog stand out. There are many types of blogs or purposes for blogs and a certain number of tactics are applicable to just about all of them.Some companies choose to hire a blog consultant, but others like to try things internally. For those “DIY” companies and individuals interested in practical tips for marketing and optimizing a business blog, try out the following list of blog marketing and optimization tips:

• Decide on a stand alone domain name www.myblog.com or directory of existing site www.mysite.com/blog. Sub domain is also an option blog.mysite.com. Avoid hosted services that do not allow you to use your own domain name!
• Obtain and install customizable blog software - WordPress and Moveable Type are my favorites.
• Customize blog look and feel templates - aka design.
• Research keywords and develop a glossary - Keyword Discovery, WordTracker, SitePoint, SEOBook Keyword Research.
• Optimize the blog:

Template optimization - RSS subscription options, social bookmark links, HTML code, Unique title tags, URLs, Sitemap
Add helper plugins specific to WordPress or MT
Create keyword rich categories (reference your keyword glossary)

• Enable automatic trackback and ping functionality.
• Create Feedburner Pro account and enable feed tracking.
• Setup a Google account for Sitemap, validate and prep for future submission.
• Identify authoritative blogs, web sites and hubs for outbound resource links and blogroll.
• Format archived posts, related posts.
• Enable statistics for tracking - Google Analytics, ClickTracks.
• Submit RSS feed and Blog URL to prominent RSS and Blog directories / search engines.
• Engage in an ongoing link building campaign.
• If podcast or video content are available, submit to Podcast and Vlog directories.
• Submit blog url to paid directories with categories for blogs - Yahoo, BOTW, bCentral, WOW, JoeAnt.
• Optimize and distribute a press release announcing blog.
• Request feedback or reviews of your blog in relevant forums, discussion threads. If you have a resourceful post that will help others, point to it.
• Research and comment on relevant industry related blogs and blogs with significant centers of influence.
• Post regularly. If it’s a news oriented blog, 3-5 times per day. If it’s an authoritative blog, 3-5 times per week, but each post must be unique and high value.
• Monitor inbound links, traffic, comments and mentions of your blog - Google Alerts, Technorati, Blogpulse, Yahoo News, Ask Blogs and Feeds.
• Always respond to comments on your blog and when you detect a mention of your blog on another blog, thank that blogger in the comments of the post.
• Make contact with related bloggers on AND offline if possible.
• When making blog posts always cite the source with a link and don’t be afraid to mention popular bloggers by name. Use keywords in the blog post title, in the body of the post and use anchor text when you link to previous posts you’ve made.
• Use social networking services, forums and discussion threads to connect with other bloggers. If they like your stuff, they will link to you.
• Remember when web sites were a new concept and the sage advice to print your web address everywhere you print your phone number? The same advice applies for your blog.
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• If your blog’s goal is to promote you as an authority, interview other prominent bloggers in your industry. Your own credibility will improve by association.
• Build out your online networks through services such as MyBlogLog, Twitter and Facebook and leverage them to promote particularly useful content on your blog.
• Once your blog has 1000 or more subscribers, show your Feedburner badge
• Host images with Flickr making sure to include an anchor text link in the image description back to the post where the image is used.
• Use your blog to gain press/media credentials at relevant industry conferences and use the event to create content, connections and increase your knowledge.

This post was originally published on June 15, 2006 and has continued to receive many inbound links. As time changes, so do some tactics, so we’ve added a few tactics (after original 25) that have emerged in their usefulness. What would you add to this list?

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